Senior Sustainability & Environment Advisor

The Vacancy

Wates are looking for a Senior Sustainability and Environment Advisor to join our London Construction Team focussing on high profile, technically complex projects across multiple sectors.

If you are passionate about construction with proven technical skills looking for an opportunity to challenge the norm, bring fresh new ideas and elevate yourself within the industry then join us and help to create tomorrow together.

This is a great opportunity to progress your career as part of a talented, diverse, and supportive team.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Senior Sustainability and Environment Advisors are a valuable part of our onsite teams, driving our sustainability agenda and ensuring that our projects meet the highest environmental standards. You will work closely with project teams, clients, and stakeholders to develop and implement sustainable practices that align with Wates Group’s core values and strategic objectives.

AS OUR SENIOR SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISOR YOU WILL:

• Develop, implement, and monitor sustainability strategies across multiple construction projects, ensuring alignment with Wates Group’s environmental goals.
• Collaborate with clients, subcontractors, and internal teams to promote sustainable construction practices. Facilitate environmental awareness training and workshops.
• Ensure all projects comply with relevant environmental legislation, regulations, and industry standards. Provide guidance and support to project teams on environmental best practices.
• Promote environmental best practice to current standards (ISO 14001, BREEAM, Well, NABERS, PAS 2080 or similar), establish best practice and implement strategies, plans, processes and standards by working closely with the design, procurement, delivery and customer teams.
• Manage the external environmental consultants. Hold regular Principals Calls/Meetings with our consultants to track progress and any issues. Measure, share and seek improvements in performance using our Key Performance Indicator (KPI) outputs.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & bonus
• Flexible working
• Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade)
• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
• Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.
• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.